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	Mr. Delgado's 7th Grade Science by Mr. Delgado · Athens/Forum Homework, lab safety rules and science fair news for Room 114 at Lincoln Middle School.
	Mrs. Okafor's Second Grade by Mrs. Grace Okafor · Athens/Academy Class news, the reading log and this month's spelling lists from Room 8.
	Latin Lives! by Mr. Bernard Hager, Latin teacher · Athens/Olympus Why a dead language is worth learning, with a beginner's grammar table and a phrase of the week.
	Homeschooling the Parker Kids by Dana Parker, mom and teacher · Athens/Acropolis A homeschooling family's daily schedule, curriculum choices and the co-op science day.
	Ancient Greece for Sixth Graders by Mr. Ted Koroneos · Athens/Parthenon A teacher's unit on ancient Greece: gods, city-states, the Olympics and a Greek Day recipe list.
	First Year, Room 114 JOURNAL by Tamika Owens · Athens/Delphi A first-year seventh-grade English teacher in Baltimore writes about her students, her student loans and crying in the car.
	Night School JOURNAL by Graciela Montoya · Athens/Troy A mother of four who cleans offices at night goes back to school for her degree, one essay at a time.
	Notes of an Old Latin Teacher JOURNAL by Arthur Penhallow · Athens/Oracle A retired Latin teacher, a widower, is learning to cook, reading Marcus Aurelius, and getting ready for his son's wedding to another man.
	The Quiet Room by Margaret Adebayo · Athens/Olympus A retired school librarian on the books that made her, and what forty years of story hour taught her.
	Strategikon by Graham Sefton · Athens/Oracle Age of Empires and Rise of Rome strategy by a graduate student in ancient history, with notes on the real history.
	The Novel Women Book Club by Lorraine Cohen · Athens/Academy Eleven women, one book a month since 1991. Our 1999-2000 reading list, how our meetings work, and our verdicts on past books.
	The Late Knights by Miriam Sanches · Athens/Acropolis A friendly online chess club for grown-ups who play Thursday nights on FICS. Club news, our ladder, annotated games and puzzles.
	Eight Hands Talking by Janelle Whitford · Athens/Parthenon A third-generation Deaf mom in Rochester on our family, American Sign Language, Deaf culture, and twelve signs for hearing neighbors.
	The Wednesday Prompt by Hal Brubaker · Athens/Olympus A new writing prompt every Wednesday from a retired newspaper copy editor. Twenty minutes, a kitchen timer, and the best of your answers.
	Checkout Time - A Mystery in Installments by Patrice Dunleavy · Athens/Olympus New chapters every other Sunday: a guest vanishes from a chained hotel room on the season's last night. Send me your theories.
	After the Bell - Short Stories by Evelyn M. Corrigan · Athens/Parthenon Short stories by a retired Kentucky English teacher: a 1947 spelling bee, a last day of school, and more when they are ready.
	Magistra Ferrin by Martin Oyler · Athens/Acropolis For Miss Adelaide Ferrin, who taught Latin in Room 204 at Harmon High School for forty-two years. Her life, her room, and our memories.
	Mr. A's Periodic Table of Puns by Vernon Achterberg · Athens/Troy A retired chemistry teacher's puns, sorted like the periodic table and rated on the Groan-O-Meter. Former students get graded.
	The Golden Quill Award for Writing on the Web by Shirley McCue · Athens/Acropolis A monthly award for good writing on the Web, chosen by a retired English teacher. Criteria, how to apply, and the Roll of Honor.
	Room 7 HatchCam by Melanie Beard · Athens/Academy Ten chicken eggs, one incubator, twenty-four third graders and a camera. Hatch day is Tuesday, September 28! Watch with us all weekend.
	Chess by Post: Fifty-Three Years of Correspondence Chess by Frederick Boehm · Athens/Academy Chess by mail since 1946, against opponents in nineteen countries: how postal chess works, the notation, a few of my games, and my first e-mail game.
	BUZZ! Our Academic Team by Margaret, 17 · Athens/Oracle Varsity quiz bowl from the captain's chair: how a match works, our fall tournament results, the team, and practice questions I wrote myself.
	The Society for the Preservation of the Semicolon by Esther Hernandez · Athens/Parthenon Founded at my kitchen table in San Antonio in 1997 to protect a modest mark from neglect and misuse. Our charter, our oath, and the sightings.
	¡Con Acentos! Spanish on Your Web Page / Español en tu página by Christine Torres · Athens/Academy Accents turning to junk? How to put á, ñ and ¿ on your web page. Cómo poner acentos en tu página. In English y en español.
	Our Words: Stories from the Tuesday-Thursday ESL Class by Rosa Esposito · Athens/Academy My evening students come from eight countries. Their stories about the first day in America and the food they miss, in their own English.
	Stallard County Genealogical Society by Gretchen Rich · Athens/Delphi Tracing families in Stallard County, Kentucky: the cemetery reading project, research hours, publications for sale, members' queries, and tips for beginners.
	What Is Jeopardy!? Joe's Play-Along Page by Joe Pidgeon · Athens/Forum My wife and I have played along with Jeopardy! every weeknight since 1984. Our house rules, our scorebook, and the categories that sink me.
	The Dead Link Patrol by Jean Guy · Athens/Oracle One link in six on the pages I check is dead. A retired reference librarian on link rot, and the polite notes I send.
	From the Tin Dispatch-Box: New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Irving Clark · Athens/Olympus Watson mentions cases he never wrote up. I have taken the liberty. Two new adventures in the old style, by a lifelong Sherlockian in Baltimore.
	I Learned to Read at 79 by Raymond Nellis · Athens/Forum I could not read until I was 79. I hid it all my life. If you cannot read, this page is for you. It is never too late.
	Room 12 Remembers the Challenger Seven by Joanne McGrane · Athens/Academy In 1985 I was one of 11,000 teachers who applied to fly in space. Every January my fourth graders and I remember Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger crew.
	The One-Page HTML Cheat Sheet by Rhonda Allee · Athens/Forum Every tag a beginner needs on two printed pages. Tape it beside your monitor. Free for any teacher to copy.
	Eye Level by Amanda Richardson · Athens/Academy I'm four feet tall and I teach kindergarten in Tampa. My class thinks I'm the perfect size. Dwarfism, Little People of America, and what kids ask.
	Why Stories by Mrs. Grooms' Fourth Grade by Donna Grooms · Athens/Delphi My fourth graders wrote their own 'why' stories last spring: why the moon has spots, how the armadillo got its armor. Twelve young authors.
	Harvest Homeschool Co-op - Fall 1999 by Willie and Lynda Lockhart · Athens/Parthenon Eighteen homeschooling families, one church fellowship hall, every Friday from 9 to 2. Our fall classes, field trips, parent jobs and Georgia's rules.
	Class Pages 101 by Catherine Lyons · Athens/Parthenon Homework, spelling lists and field-trip dates, and never a child's last name. How to make a class page in twenty minutes a week.
	Mrs. Felton's Third Grade 1997-98 by Ann Felton · Athens/Delphi Welcome to Room 12! Our spelling lists, class news, the butterfly project, the field trip, and homework help for parents.
	The Unofficial Ridgeview High Home Page by Vincent, 17 · Athens/Oracle Everything Ridgeview: the bell schedule, sports scores, the senior countdown and the Wall of Fame. Run by a student, for students!
	The Mostly True Adventures of Eighth Grade by Tanner, 14 · Athens/Troy Funny stories about an eighth grader named Brent, who is definitely not me. Picture day, the science fair, and the worst substitute ever.
	Please Excuse Him: 26 Years in the Attendance Office by Carol Enochs · Athens/Academy Twenty-six years of notes from home, the best ones anyway, sorted by cause. No names, ever. Retiring in June, and I'll miss every one of them.
	The Math Department Joke Drawer by James Farrell · Athens/Delphi Jokes from my bottom desk drawer, sorted by course from arithmetic to calculus, plus the old proof that 1 = 2 and where it cheats.
	The Grand Battery: Napoleonic Miniatures by Dennis Dubois · Athens/Troy Refighting Napoleon's battles in 15mm on a Ping-Pong table: our club's battle reports, painting the armies, and the real history behind each fight.
	Fixed Forms: Villanelles, Sestinas and Other Puzzles by Morris Baden · Athens/Oracle I teach algebra and write poems in the strict old forms, because they're puzzles. How each form works, with my own villanelles, sestinas and pantoums.
	The Checkerboard: An Old Checkers Player's Page by Conrad Mitton · Athens/Academy I've played checkers on the courthouse square since 1937. How to play, how to play better, the regulars on the bench, and why the great Marion Tinsley was the best there ever was.
	Yinz Talk Good: A Pittsburghese Dictionary by Jack Thach · Athens/Delphi I moved to Phoenix in 1991, and the first time I said 'the car needs washed' everybody stared. A dictionary of Pittsburghese for the rest of yinz, with sentences to practice on.

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